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Coordinatr: Elegant Solution For Event Planning

When you’re planning an event - be it a personal or business-related shindig - and you want to get the attendee list all sorted quickly and easily, the Web service which comes immediately to mind is likely to be Upcoming. And for good reason. It’s a Yahoo property, so chances are you’ll need not register a new account, making the process of organizing a gathering via Upcoming super simple for most people. And even if Upcoming isn’t your cup of tea, there’s always Eventful. It is also a popular event-planning engine that gets word out about those parties or book club meets or whathaveyou.

But what if you don’t want to do things mainstream? What if you want to get really selective with your invites and communiques, and sync up your event data with utilities like Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, or Google Calendar, or monitor invites’ status via RSS? And what if plans change quick and you need to get some real-time edits to your compadres out quick? What then? Well, then there’s Coordinatr.

Coordinatr is a simple event manager. But it’s also nothing less than superb because of its bareboned, ultra-clean nature. For one, it’s a heck of a lot more attractive than the more universally renowned services mentioned above. If you’re into that whole Web 2.0 elegance thing that a select percentage of site engineers and designers these days continue to pay heed to, you’ll enjoy Coordinatr very much. Also, its functions are focused on convenience and social harmony. Synchronicity is key, and Coordinator manages to shine with the best of the biz in that respect.

Also, last but not least, there’s a nice feature that for most users will likely go ignored, but is a thoughtful item for Coordinatr’s makers to the ensemble nonetheless. It is the feedback window. Yep, pop-out (not to be confused with pop-up) the feedback box. It is easily accessed via the left-side tab on the page, and though it is surely a minor attachment to the site, it’s something that elicits attention to detail on the part of the creator(s). And that’s a great thing to see.

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